[QUOTE=Jacobobs;6129244]SCH in particular feels a lot harder to make work in a lot of situations

It's part of SCH identity. It's harder than a WHM or even SGE - How to properly use fairy skill/Your AF skills - Placing her/Getting the maximum of Energy drain. You gotta use most ot its kit efficiently to make it work and shine.

SCH lacks the tools to deal with situations when things go real south in a hurry, such as if the tank doesn't mitigate properly, or if the dps take unexpected hits right before raidwides, etc., unlike it's peers which have plenty of great "oh sh-" buttons. (Haima/Panhaima, Benediction, Tetragrammaton, Essential dignity, Celes. Intersection).

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Not true. Protraction -> Lustrate/Excog (or one of these alone - Indom/Recitation indom - Swiftcast still exists.
Besides, you don't play SCH as a reactive healer. SCH strengh comes from its premptive mitigation tools. You don't let a tank without anything on its face. You can have soil up every 30s, have excog on him, fey union, protraction whispering dawn, expediant..

I won't do a SCH guide, everything you list looks like you don't master SCH and need to train more than a "SCH need to change because it's unefficient".

(Besides, now in lvl100 SCH is even stronger with 60s Recitation and Seraphism if GCD is needeed)